Personality tests (reading activity) see Aula Virtual
Trustworthy
nur‧ture1 /ˈnɜːtʃə $ ˈnɜːrtʃər/ verb [transitive]
formal
1 to help a plan, idea, feeling etc to develop
European union
is an ideal that has been nurtured since the post-war years.
a hatred of
foreigners nurtured by the media
2 to feed and take care of a child or a plant while it
is growing
plants nurtured
in the greenhouse
a‧gree‧a‧ble /əˈɡriːəbəl/
adjective
1 written or old-fashioned pleasant OPP disagreeable
con‧sci‧en‧tious /ˌkɒnʃiˈenʃəs◂ $ ˌkɑːn-/
●○○ adjective
careful to do everything that it is your job or duty
to do
A conscientious
teacher may feel inclined to take work home.
a conscientious
and hard-working student
neu‧rot‧ic /njʊˈrɒtɪk $ nʊˈrɑː-/
adjective
1 unreasonably anxious or afraid
He seemed a
neurotic, self-obsessed man.
stim‧u‧lus /ˈstɪmjələs/ ●○○ noun (plural stimuli /-laɪ/)
thought‧ful /ˈθɔːtfəl $ ˈθɒːt-/
●○○ adjective
1 always thinking of the things you can do to make
people happy or comfortable OPP thoughtless
Paul is very
thoughtful.
de‧pend‧a‧ble /dɪˈpendəbəl/ ●○○
adjective
able to be trusted to do what you need or expect
sym‧pa‧thet‧ic /ˌsɪmpəˈθetɪk◂/ ●●○
adjective
1 caring and feeling sorry about someone’s problems
a sympathetic
friend
with‧er /ˈwɪðə $ -ər/ (also wither
away) verb
1 [intransitive, transitive] if plants wither, or if
something withers them, they become drier and smaller and start to die
2 [intransitive] to gradually become weaker or less
successful and then end
Homework
For the
speaking initial evaluation test send me to gmail a 1 minute recording with
personal info (name, occupation, hobbies, rutines…)
Listening activity: personality traits
leave somebody cold
to not feel interested in or affected by something in
any way
Opera left him
cold.
→ cold
Examples from the Corpus
leave somebody cold
• All this talk about counselling and therapy left me
cold.
• Ballet just leaves me cold.
• Opera leaves me cold.
• Why are people so crazy about opera? It leaves me
completely cold.
a bum/bad rap
especially American English informal unfair treatment
or punishment
→ rap
Examples from the Corpus
a bum/bad rap
• She said social programs of the 1960s have gotten a
bad rap in the 1990s.
• They got me on a bum rap.
• Yalta
be/live in cloud-cuckoo-land
British English to think that a situation is much
better than it really is, in a way that is slightly stupid
ˌmiddle-of-the-ˈroad adjective
1 middle-of-the-road ideas or opinions are not
extreme, and so most people are likely to agree with them
a party
offering safe, middle-of-the-road policies
2 middle-of-the-road voters or politicians have ideas
that are not extreme
3 informal ordinary and not new, different, or
exciting
Their first
album was quite good, but the second was very middle-of-the-road stuff.
Moaning Minnie /ˌməʊnɪŋ ˈmɪni/
noun
1 infml someone who is never satisfied and is always
complaining
armchair critic
someone who criticizes other people but who does not
have any proper experience of the activity the other people are doing
→ critic
Examples from the Corpus
armchair critic
• And it has a billion armchair critics, so clothes do
count.
• I did not intend to foster more armchair critics of
the public schools either.
ˌdark ˈhorse noun
[countable]
1 someone who is not well known, and who surprises
people by winning a competition
In the 1955
golf championship, dark horse Jack Fleck defeated Ben Hogan.
2 British English someone who does not tell people
much about themselves, but who has surprising qualities or abilities
She’s a dark
horse. I didn’t know she’d written a novel.
good egg
old-fashioned someone who you can depend on to be
honest, kind etc
→ egg
Examples from the Corpus
good egg
• What a good egg she was!
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